Picker-stick check



W. M.-P.ATTERSON.

. PICKER SUCK CHECK. APPLICATION map DEC. i, 1921.

Patentd May 30, 1922.

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H WILLIAM M. PATTERSON,- FGREENVILLE, sourHI A o PICKER-STIGK 1 CHECK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LKVILLIAM M. PATTER- soN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Grcenville, county of Greenville and State of South Carolina,

reduce the length of-strap required to make the check loop, thereby greatly saving in leather and also, and most important, enabling me to utilize parts of comparatively long worn-out check-straps of the type now in use, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing Fig. 1 is aside elevation partly in section of a device embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof h Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a modified form of check-strap support; 7

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are detail views showing a modified form of support for the strap.

In the drawing, 5 designates a hanger of the usual construction which depends from the lay, and attached to one face of this hanger is a pair of'arms 6 extending in opposite directionsand lying parallel with the lay, the outer, free end of each arm being bent up to vertical position to form a vertical pivot 7. The leather strap 8 has its ends respectively pivotally. connected to said pivots by means of leather clamps 9, each of these clamps consisting of a short piece of leather folded around the pivot and secured to the end of the strap by means of a bolt 10, a bushing of fibre 11 being employed between the metal pivot 7 and the strap 9 to prevent undue wear of the strap. The end ofthe check-strap abuts the bushing 11 to thereby make a snug fit around the bushing.

The check-strap Sis sufficiently greater in length than the distance between the two pivots 7 to provide sutficient fullness at one side of the supporting arms 6 to form a loop inwhich the picker-stick 12 works, being ar rested at each end of its stroke by the looped end of the strap, as shown in Fig. 2. It will be observed that with my construction the leather strap 8 may be no more than approximately half the length of the usual allleather strap now in general use and that, therefore, I may construct my check from parts of worn-out straps of the old type, thereby enabling me to use the 01d worn-out Serial 110. 519,151.

straps which have aswaste, a y

In Fig. 3 it will beobserved that the enough to lie against the hanger, thereby formlng arms 13 which assist the arms 6 in rigidly supporting pivots .7. The'ends of pivots 7 are extended and" bent inwardly far.

- Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented 31.33 39, 1922, Application filed December 1,1921.

heretofore been discarded f the arms 6 and 18 are rigidly but removably secured tothe hanger by means of a clampblock 14: which is bolted to the hanger by means of the bolt 15.

I11 Figs.4, 5 and 6 I illustrate one of. the

many modified arrangements I may adopt for supporting or suspending the pivots .7.

In this case, the pivots consist of bolts 7 depending from a bracket 16 aifixed to the lay. Two bolts and two brackets are of course employed. Each bolt is provided with a head-17 at its lowerend, and the two bolts are connected by a horizontal bar 18.

For adjustment purposes, the horizontal I members of the bracket 16are each provided with a series of bolt-holes 19. i

The upper end of the pivot-bolt 7 is shouldered so. as

to fit solidlyagainst the underside of the bracket, a nut2O being screwed on the up' per end of the bolt for the purpose of securing it rigidly in the selectedhole 19.

The nature and scope of the invention having been thus indicated and its preferred embodiment having been specifically de 1 scribed, what is claimed as new is:

1. A picker-stick check consisting of. 6

pair of verticalpivots and meansfor attaching them underneath the lay at one side thereof, and a flexible check-strap having its ends pivotally connected to said pivots, said pivots being set apart sufliciently far to pre: vent side-pull on .the check-strap.

2. A picker-stick check embodying a hanger depending from the lay, a pair vof oppositely-extending independently adj ustable arms attached to the hanger and each 2 having a vertical pivot, and a flexible strap having its ends pivotally attached to the respective pivots. V p p 3. A picker-sticlc-check consisting of a pair of verticalpivots and means for attaching them underneath the lay, and a flexiblecheck-strap having its ends pivotally connected to said pivots, the connection to the pivots being made by means of strap-clamps secured to the strap and surrounding the pivots.

' L A picker stickcheck consisting of a .pair of vertical pivots and means for attaching them underneath the lay, and a flexible check-strap having its ends pivotally connected to said pivots, the connection to the pivots being made by means of leather strap-clamps secured to the strap and surrounding the piv'ots, a fibre bushing being arranged between the pivot and the strap clamp.

5. A picker-stick check consisting of a pair of vertical pivots and means for attaching them underneath the lay at one side thereof and at a distance apart, and a flexible check strap having its ends pivotally connected to said pivots.

6. A picker-stick check consisting of a pair of vertical pivots and -means for attaching them underneath the lay at one side thereof and at a distance apart, said means embodying devices permitting said disthe strap'to swing freely laterally on said pivots.

In testimony whereof I hereunto am my signature. 7

WILLIAM M. PATTERSON. 

